[CLOSED] Quarter Notes Giveaway #1 (counterstamped quarters)

4/28/21: This contest is now CLOSED. The winner was announced in Post #68.

Quarter Notes Giveaway #1

The enigmatic “QuarterMaster” from Quarter Notes, Ltd. has sent me another surprise package. This time it was a small Priority box. I always open my mystery-mail from Quarter Notes because it’s always interesting and fun.

The QuarterMaster (whose secretive identity remains unknown to me to this day) sent me two rolls of his handiwork this time.

You see, he counterstamps short, pithy phrases- which amount to riddles, sometimes- on Statehood quarters, and releases them into circulation. Often the phrase has something to do with the state featured on the host coin.



Some folks who end up on his mailing list (who knows how?) get these in the mail (occasionally with the mind-blowing inclusion of crisp, high-denomination US currency notes!)

This time around, the generous QuarterMaster has instructed me to give away eight lots of ten counterstamped quarters each. This I will do in intervals of every 1-3 weeks or so, as my schedule permits. We will do this via random drawing, per my usual practice.

The winners should have fun trying to solve the riddles of the counterstamps.

Since the QuarterMaster also (obscenely) overcompensated me for the eventual shipping costs (by way of more of those aforementioned high-denomination currency notes), I will also toss in two trinkets from my own inventory into each lot, and will ship the lots with a whole bunch of vintage (1930s-1950s) stamps, just for added fun.




So... want in?

Here's all you need to do:

Post a reply including the phrase "entry post", and tell us what your favorite US Statehood Quarter design is. If you win, I will attempt to include a counterstamped quarter of that design into your prize lot (if I have one on hand from the source rolls).

Limit one entry post per member per drawing.

Again, this drawing is for a lot of ten (10) different Statehood quarters with Quarter Notes, Ltd. counterstamps on them. I'll try to include all different designs and/or counterstamps in each lot, as far as possible.

And if you don't win this drawing, there will be more (eight lots of ten coins in each, total). I'll try to do a drawing every one to three weeks, as mentioned, depending on when I'm active on the forums.

PS- in addition to the trinkets and stamps I'll toss in with the quarter shipments, one of these lots is also going to include a crisp $20 bill. Hey, I can't afford to fling C-notes around willy-nilly like the QuarterMaster sometimes does, but since he was overgenerous with me- as usual- I'll slip a twenty into one of these envelopes. (Which prize lot gets the twenty will also be randomly determined.)

 

I’m rather partial to Nevada’s, I think, though I’m from Georgia. (Ours isn’t bad.)

 

Ooh, groovy error! That’s my birth state.

 

I just figured out the “ENEMY” counterstamp on that Missouri quarter in the pic above.

The Gateway Arch is featured on the Missouri quarter.

Arch + ENEMY = “arch-enemy”. Get it? It’s a visual pun. Likewise “HORSE IN A ROUND” on the Delaware quarter. Which of course features a horse.

Which begs another silly riddle:

Q: What kind of horse is shown on the Delaware quarter?

A: A quarter horse! ​

A lot of these counterstamps seem to be puns.

 

The QuarterMaster once sent a quarter that he said had NOT been counterstamped by him.

It was a W-mint V75.